Listening Quotes - Page 25

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

They do what they do for money - that's all. I don't even know why you're listening to me. I've done commercials for both Coke and Pepsi. Truth is, I can't even taste the difference, but Pepsi paid me last, so there it is.

Maybe sincerity is the new punk. But to me, I think I have to connect with something emotionally, on some level, or I don't care about it. And if I don't care about it, then I don't think anyone listening to it will, either.

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

A lot of the time I tend to overlook the music because I'm listening to how it's produced.

I really like listening to music in my car.

With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh and open way will you discern at any given time what most serves your healing and freedom.

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

Careful, intelligent listening is a crucial step on the road to organizational success.

Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it.

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

No more words. Hear only the voice within.

Learn to speak by listening.

I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

Agreement is the by-product of listening and understanding.